The Insurrectionists' Guide to the MoviesStephen Bush, Dr Sarah Jilani , Kate Maltby and Keith Shiri join Matthew Sweet56 mins31 May 2024
Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?Margaret MacMillan, David Aaronovitch, Phillip Blond and Gisela Stuart join Matthew Sweet57 mins25 May 2024
Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy56 mins21 May 2024
New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation ThinkersIntroducing ten academics who’ll be sharing their research as part of a BBC/AHRC scheme44 mins16 May 2024
Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protestMatthew Sweet with David Willetts, Elizabeth Oldfield, Will Davies, Tiffany Watt Smith56 mins10 May 2024
Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of NightlifeWinning and losing with Lea Ypi, Peter Hitchens, Michael Mansfield KC and Cath Bishop.57 mins04 May 2024
Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an AnimalGirl power past and present, the wisdom of goats and seagulls and Kant's ideas on reason57 mins26 Apr 2024
New Thinking: Exploring the localNew research into local politics, newspapers and the history of the post office43 mins26 Apr 2024
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and BlueyMary Beard, Konnie Huq, Helen Carr and Tom Peck join Shahidha Bari57 mins19 Apr 2024
Change, scrabble and cultural christianityMatthew Sweet and guests look at ideas about change: political, climate, personal56 mins12 Apr 2024
Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarineMatthew Sweet and guests look back at the week exploring the ideas shaping our lives today56 mins05 Apr 2024
Unravelling plainnessIsabella Rosner explains why needlework challenges our idea of Quaker simplicity14 mins29 Mar 2024
PranksMatthew Sweet and guests assess the value of pranks and what purpose they may serve.44 mins29 Mar 2024
What does feminist art mean?Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the '70s women's liberation movement14 mins28 Mar 2024
New Thinking: Light and DarknessDarkness and how it affects those with dementia, to light in modernist literature39 mins28 Mar 2024
Approaches to deathArchaeologists Marianne Hem Eriksen, Pauline Harding: historians Cat Byers, Harriet Soper44 mins27 Mar 2024
New Thinking: East West artistic connectionsA war captive turned musician in the Ottoman court and Islamic influences in Rubens' art35 mins27 Mar 2024
Rock, Paper, Saints and SinnersGemma Tidman describes a game created by a Jesuit missionary seeking Mohawk converts.13 mins27 Mar 2024
Writing PlaceSylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the Arun river in Sussex.44 mins27 Mar 2024
Arteries of tomorrowDan Taylor considers the way communities along the A13 are looking to the future14 mins26 Mar 2024